No Borders Gatwick

first notes for a Migrating University to be held at Gatwick International Airport amidst the No Borders Camp(link below)

The No Borders camp at Gatwick in september (19th-24th) is an ideal opportunity for the local uni to rouse itself from sleepy London and show its solidarity with Britain’s new settlers, condemn the Government’s asylum and detention practices, and expose the hypocrisy of having unregulated capital flow alongside racist fortress-europe restrictions on people.

So, let’s get Goldsmiths on the move.- tent university, courses and workshops on race, migration, Muticulturilism, gender and sexuality, Media, culture, literature, music, activism and education etc.- practical and theoretical programs, taught by current Goldsmiths and invited international(ist) professors, general staff, gaduates and students,all welcome.- a non-elitist and democratic administrative structure, not a teaching factory governed by commodity servicing- a fighting representative education union, open to everyone, no i.d cards- for critical radical intellectual renewal drawing upon the vast creative and expressive resources of people’s movement(s)

Etc.please add things to this… and of course read the Invitation to the No Borders Camp proper

A day & night of discussions, films, food and live music in solidarity withmigrants & refugees.

3pm : ‘Underground Londoners’ – Film and talk from London’s tube cleaners,many of whom are undocumented migrant workers, about their campaign for aliving wage.

4pm: Detainee Self-help Support Project: An insight into the UK immigrationdetention, struggles from the inside, and support and solidarity from theoutside, by ex-detained Kenyan asylum seeker and activist George Mwangi.

5pm: Sink or Swim: Climate change and environmental refugeesThe small pacific island of Tuvalu is sinking – year by year, the low lyingisland is being washed away by rising seas caused by climate change.Eventually, the entire nation of Tuvalu will become refugees.Over half of the world’s refugees are displaced for environmental reasons -from floods caused by the felling of forests, to oil spills anddesertification. How the Global North consumes the world’s resources and thewaste and climate change this causes creates a huge number of refugees, manyof whom we then detain and deport for seeking a better life. This workshopwill explore the connections between climate change and migration, and thestate’s response.

5.30pm: PUBLIC MEETING ABOUT THE GATWICK NO BORDER CAMP, to take place from19th-24th September 2007. Public meeting about the camp, and the campaignagainst the new asylum detention centre which is being built at Gatwick. This will be followed by a short film about a previous No Border Camp inWoomera (Australia).